The Shadow of the Tiara

The Shadow of the Tiara by Isabella Croce
In the suffocating shadows of a Vatican conclave, the sudden death of a controversial pope unleashes a nightmare. His radiant ghost, crowned with a burning tiara, haunts the sacred halls, possessing cardinals to confess their sins through grotesque, self-mutilating rituals-carving flesh, chanting in dead tongues, and leaping to their deaths. Father Lorenzo, a disgraced exorcist haunted by past failures, is summoned to banish the spirit. But as he uncovers a cabal's ritual sacrifice to summon a demonic parody of Christ, Lorenzo realizes the ghost is a desperate warning, not the true threat. Racing against a cosmic conspiracy to open the gates of Hell, Lorenzo confronts his own sins in a visceral battle for the Vatican's soul. A relentless supernatural horror blending demonic intensity with Vatican intrigue, The Shadow of the Tiara by Isabella Croce will grip fans of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby in its fiery descent into darkness.